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Check out our ways you can give thanks to your teeth this season!

It is essential to take care of your teeth at all ages since they decorate your smile and enable you to have a bite of your favorite delicacies. Oral health enhances your self-confidence and nutrition.  The following are some of the ways you can give thanks to your teeth:

Drink Water Frequently

Frequent drinking of water is an inexpensive way to keep your teeth in good health. Besides helping you avoid becoming dehydrated, drinking water from time to time helps wash away the food particles that get trapped in between your teeth after you are through with your meals. Additionally, it helps maintain the right conditions in your mouth to help avoid the development of bacteria due to plaque, thus, staving off cavities. Frequent drinking of water also gives your mouth a fresh breath all day long.

Brush for Longer

Most people do not brush their teeth long enough to remove all the plaque. You can lengthen the duration for brushing by listening to a favorite song. Ideally, you should brush for at least two minutes. Playing a favorite tune will more so, encourage children to spend a long time when brushing their teeth. Contact us to learn how to better brush your teeth and ways to help you spend enough time at the sink for a sparkling smile.

Regularly Visit a Dentist

You should visit a dentist at least twice a year. During such visits, the doctor will be able to spot potential oral problems at their infancy. A doctor will also clean areas that are hard to clean for you during brushing. The best way to say thank you to your teeth is by preventing the escalation of problems through preventative care.

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Are you looking for healthy Halloween treats that your kids will love?

Halloween is almost here with us, and every shop in town seems to have stocked more chocolate, lollies, and other not so healthy foods. Although this is a period of celebration and fun, it can be stressful for parents since your kids will always want the not so healthy snacks and treat that can cause cavities and other dental problems afterward. So, are you looking for healthy Halloween treats that your kids will love this season? Here are our top five picks.

Web Pizza

A web pizza is a healthy treat that any kid out there will love. To prepare your web pizza, you will need pizza dough, at least one cup of homemade tomato sauce, sliced cheese and olives. Proceed to spread the tomato sauce over your pizza base and cut the cheese into smaller strips for the spider web. Place in a cobweb pattern and bake your pizza for approximately ten minutes in a hot oven. You can use the olives to create scary spiders.

Eyeballs on a Log

Another way to treat your kid is by putting cream cheese or nut butter in a stick of celery then top it up with candy eyeballs. Alternatively, you could also place a sizeable chocolate chip upside-down. Now melt your chocolate chips in a plastic bag and pipe out little spider legs.

Mandarin Orange Pumpkins

Fruits and vegetables are known to promote good oral health. Therefore, you can never go wrong with anything to do with fruits or veggies. Prepare a canning jar that can hold several oranges when peeled. After you peel your oranges, put all the slices in your jar and draw the classic jack-o-lantern face that almost every kid knows and loves.

Darkly Delicious Apples

Did you know that a combination of dark chocolate and apples create a powerful antioxidant that can help protect your kid’s teeth and heart? To prepare your darkly delicious apples, you will need at least four apples, one cup of dark chocolate chips or baking discs, sticks, parchment paper. Remove all the apple stems and insert the sticks into the top of the apples. Now melt your chocolate baking discs and slowly rotate each apple until all sides are covered in chocolate. Place it on a tray lined with wax paper and insert it in your fridge to cool.

Pumpkin & Ghosts

Do you want to scare your kid a little bit? Then you have to try the pumpkin & ghost treat. You will need clementine, bananas, celery, and raisins. Peel you clementines and remove the core. Slice your celery into skinny strips and then insert them into the middle of your clementine. Peel and cut your bananas in half. Push two raisins into your banana for eyes and another one for the mouth.

What are the best dentist toys for kids?

Who doesn’t dread the visit to Dr. Dracula – I mean the Dentist. When the time comes to get a filling, or God forbid an extraction anyone would have tears rolling down their eyes. But it need not be a pain before the pain even begins for children. With these dentist toys for kids, make going to the dentist a breeze and acclimatize any child with what can be expected and even have them look forward to the visit.

Here we have 6 toys for kids who can play their fear away!

Play Doh Dr. Drill & Fill

The Dr. Drill & Fill play set provides for an interactive way of learning all about brushing ones teeth as well as braces. Tools provide for various dental scenarios possible, including brushing teeth as well as make brace as well! Knowledge is power and kids would love learning all about the unknown.

Alma’s Designs Dentist Kit

Improve motor skills through role play with a trusted loved one. Make the dentist clinic a less scary area, by inspiring children to get familiar with the expected treatment. Open your mouth wide for flossing, probing as well as an injection among other things made possible with the tools in this kit. It is all the more realistic with a convenient bag to hold supplies and become a dentist on the go

Just Play Doc McStuffins Happy Smiles Dentist Play Set

Heal your pets and bring their smiles back with Just Play Doc McStuffins Happy Smiles Dentist Play Set. It includes a Stethoscope, a Dentist Table, a Dentist Chair, a Tooth Brush, a tube of Tooth Paste, some Dental Floss, a Cup even and a Book of Boo Boo’s. Keep Bronty’s smile wide and clean with this play set and provide him with regular dental checkups.

Barbie Careers Dentist Play Set

If Barbie is your dentist then your princess would surely want to go meet her. This play set has baby in the role of a dentist who makes sure to give an extensive checkup with that special touch of classic Barbie fun with all the perfect accessories and a fashionable outfit to boot. You get your very own toddler patient to work on as well!

Calico Critters Country Dentist Set Play Set

This set includes Dr. Bunny Richard in his dentist uniform and he has his very own clinic, complete with reclining dental chair with spit sink, a detachable chair lamp, a swiveling stool, a whole dentist tray on wheels, a surgical mask to perform procedures with ease, a bib for the patient, 2 toothbrushes, 2 cups, 2 dental jars, and 6 dental tools. Which dentist does not have all his tools and equipment with him to perform their duties perfectly?

PLAYMOBIL Dentist with Patient Play Set

Make sure to not miss a spot with PLAYMOBIL Dentist with Patient Play Set. Look for cavities at the very back of the mouth with the help of the reclining exam chair. Of course it would not be possible without the overhead light. Keep all tools and equipment nearby on the side table. Make up scenarios with the adult doctor and child figure and help reassure your child in the process.

Let your kids learn while they play with these kits. Get them interested in oral hygiene and teach them ways of keeping and having healthy teeth. Who knows, these fellows may very well grow up to be dentists themselves.

*All play sets are recommended for kids above the age of 3 due to small parts which may cause choking.